Tl,DR Bad scammy vpn are terrible and kape / nord are terrible same for the norton owned vpn.

Really comes up against what you want to protect yourself. it can be a privacy tool , its not a anonymous tool.

If you open nfo files by double click Windows open a system info tool.

But if you open nfo files with a text editor with "open with " it shows it’s text.

So it didn’t gather anything.

And I would argue unzipped files are less dangerous because you kinda can assume what you download already.

It’s also a good idea to have a av.

Avast is very friendly regarding piracy as in they seem to only flag actual malware and not necessarily keygens cracks and stuff ( heuristics can still make mistakes just report them as false positive )

As long as your allowed to sadly.